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"Creator" of Litecoin - is this some kind of joke? Litecoin is a trivial fork of Bitcoin. Litecoin uses scrypt instead of SHA256 for proof-of-work and the tot
by yapcguy 13y ago
"Creator" of Litecoin - is this some kind of joke?
Litecoin is a trivial fork of Bitcoin. Litecoin uses scrypt instead of SHA256 for proof-of-work and the total number of coins is 84 million instead of 21 million. That's it!
- t0 13y agohttps://github.com/litecoin-project?tab=members https://github.com/litecoin-project?tab=members
- enraged_camel 13y agoHow does it feel to be so embarrassingly ignorant all the time?
- Simucal 13y agoWhat are some other differences?
- yapcguy 13y agoSo if I fork Bitcoin by changing the hashing algorithm and tweaking a parameter, am I suddenly a "creator" too? Get real. This is an insult to Satoshi Nakamoto.
- eru 13y agoSure. The problem will, of course, be to get anyone to assign any value to your fork.
- bdcs 13y agoCharlie Lee is well aware of this. He created Litecoin to stop endless requests to change bitcoin to a faster confirmation time, even though the benefits are scarce.
- yapcguy 13y agoCoinbase touting their new hire as a "Creator" is a bit much. Nothing wrong with what Charlie has done, good luck to him.
- nullc 13y agoHe didn't even write the scrypt integration, IIRC Artforz (author of the first GPU mining code) did. But hey, there sure were a bunch of lines of code changed to change the name! :P